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  • Trysting Tree, and called on her mother (as now she called her) to come to her, and ever more and more of wisdom she won thereby.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Trysting Oak, and showed them to the wood-mother, and she was kind and soft with them; and both Aurea and Viridis were shy with her, and as if they feared her, but Atra was frank and free, and spake boldly.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Source: The New York Times, Wednesday, September 21, B11, col. 6 article entitled "A Sex Stop on the Way Home: A Park's Lot Doubles as a Trysting Place for Gay Men" Any help in defining the word dog as used here would be appreciated.

    languagehat.com: LIGHTER INTERVIEW. 2005

  • “I would, Wamba,” said the knight, “that our host of the Trysting-tree, or the jolly Friar, his chaplain, heard this thy ditty in praise of our bluff yeoman.”

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • Four or five riders were already gathered at the Trysting pool.

    The Black Dwarf 2004

  • When the Black Knight — for it becomes necessary to resume the train of his adventures — left the Trysting-tree of the generous

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • The rest disperse by twasome and threesome through the waste, and meet me at the Trysting-pool.

    The Black Dwarf 2004

  • “I am most willing to take on me the direction of the archery; and ye shall hang me up on my own Trysting-tree, an the defenders be permitted to show themselves over the walls without being stuck with as many shafts as there are cloves in a gammon of bacon at Christmas.”

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • The outlaws were all assembled around the Trysting-tree in the

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • Trysting Place -- Black Art -- Ways of discovering whether a supposed

    The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales James Grant

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